My first reaction: gosh, another one. My second reaction: hmm, it's an extension, I'm curious, show me. My third reaction: I absolutely love it.
Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
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Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
#172Love this; really nice work. It's so much more readable. Older eyes thank you. I would upvote it just for having a lighter-charcoal background available for dark mode. My one piece of feedback is this: the line height adjustment on the comment pages changes the distance between comments as well as the space between lines within comments, but I think those are better decoupled. I would like to see comments fairly clos…
Thanks, glad to hear it helps :) Good point, they should be separate settings. I'm going to add more theme adjustment settings in future updates to solve that.
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
#173Do you accept feature requests/think this might be a good idea? I've been thinking about creating this + adding https://github.com/mozilla/readability to grab the links that are text articles and present them in-page (and cleaned up, just the text+images+similar, removing all the sidebars, popups, etc) instead of having to go to a 3rd party website with all the popups and such. It'd have to be either a personal websi…
It's a nice idea! One consideration would be how to grab the html of the pages. In my experience, using either fetch() or an ajax request often runs into problems with CORS etc on the destination site blocking the request.
Maybe there's a better way someone knows for extensions to grab remote html without running into these problems?
The alternative would be for the extension to grab the html via API from a crawler running on a server (or SaaS), which should work pretty well.
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
#174It's very nice-looking! One deal-breaker for me, sadly -- having the collapse/expand and upvote/downvote buttons on opposite sides (left, right) of the page is way too annoying. When I read comments, I'm constantly voting and collapsing. Using my trackpad to jump back and forth is just too much. Current HN isn't great for that, but it's usually only traversing about a quarter of the page's distance.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm going to make the space in the comment header clickable to collapse/expand, which will reduce the distance a bit. Would that work for you?
The other alternative might be to add a setting to move the collapse/expand arrow to be part of the icons on the right.
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
#175One thing I'd like to see is the ability to filter out posts with less than X amount of points. At certain times of the day, the first page (30 entries) has ~30% of entries which are low points, and I usually prefer to avoid these.
Thanks for your work!
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
#176I kinda come here because it doesn't have this :) But this is the good thing about it, people can extend it as they wish.
> But this is the good thing about it, people can extend it as they wish.
You would think that but no. The HTML is so full of tables everywhere that it's not that easy to do anything creative with it. I'm pretty sure that's why some features such as collapsing comments took so long to be implemented (and not because "not collapsing forces you to read")
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
#177I kinda come here because it doesn't have this :) But this is the good thing about it, people can extend it as they wish.
To be fair, I wish HN had a substantially bigger font, for phone reading. That's about my only complaint. Oh, and way bigger links for my big thumbs
> To be fair, I wish HN had a substantially bigger font, for phone reading.
On desktop, HN is the only website that I have "zoomed". 120%, btw.
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
#178on hackernews, comments appear really as a tree, and that is pleasant. Not so much with this extension. It is not so clear where stands the comment we are reading.
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
#179At first I thought 'Not another one'. But this is really well designed and great to have the style customization available. Are you a designer? The upvote, bookmark buttons etc probably need a tooltip - not everyone might know what those icon buttons do. In fact I'd add a tooltip to all icons buttons. Also, when the width is set to 100% - the menu that appears after clicking on the more button (3 dots) is cut off - a…
Thanks for the feedback, glad you like it :) Will add tooltips to icons in the next update + fix that 100% width bug too.
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
#180I personally love this. I hope this wasn't a web extension but i really like it nonetheless. The design is very clean and i don't feel like it's wasting my time with lots of unnecessary stuff in the screen.
Good job honestly, it really modernizes an old site without doing stupid sh*t